Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-07
OUR STATESMAN PRESIDENT.

OUR STATESMAN PRESIDENT.
 Have our readers, or any of them, ever taken opportunity of reading what by habit is called the Queens speech at the opening and propagation of the British Parliaments In reality it is the manifesto of ministers, and the chief object appears to be concealment of legislative inten- tions, or a glorifcation of legislative achievements. Relations with Foreign Powers are rejoiced in or deplored as occa- sion serves; the faithful Commons are thanked for the iberality of money SUD- the speech is supplemented by recommenda- tions of greater rigor in dealing with the mere Irish. And to all these unsatisfac- tory pronouncements-m to conceal design according to diplomatic ideal-there is ever and always @ marked ungram- matacism that would shame the children of our Common Schools.
 With pride we turn to the contrast which our own "Royal Speech" furnishes Royal in that it is the voice of the repre- sentative of the peoples sovereignty; and never in the history of such messages was there one presented so logical in it's array of facts, so comprehensive in it's calcula- tions of the future, so liberal in it's esti- mate of home right and international du- ties, in a word, so marked by all the at tributes which should dignify the ruler of great nation, actuated by honest desire for the nations prosperity.
 And yet they are not happy. Strike high, strike low, there is no pleasing them, as the fogging drum-major once observed when a soldier victim at the triangle winced under the cat-o-nine tails. Strike high, strike low, there is no pleasing the Republicans of the old-time intolerant stripe. Keep glut of money in the treas ury vaults and the cry would be of wealth lying in unproductive idleness. Make proposition to scatter the hoard broadcast in the country, to redeem government ob- legations and save the vast amount paid by coupons to the bond-holders; to revive trade by more extensive circulation of cash; to remove Instructions to our trade by more liberal interpretation of inter national legislation; to come down, as it were, to recognition of @ Tariff charge for the needs of revenue only, and on such commodities as would not interfere with the industry of our own country, and the just requital of our own workers. And then the cry is upraised: "the thin end of the wedge of free trade is forced in, and our own labor is threatened in the interests of the foreign workmen."
 When shall the prosperity of the coun- try rise in Republican view superior to the prejudices of party? ''Free Trade" they cry out in horror unmindful or ignorant of what Free Trade is. We are not Free Ira ders in the ordinary acceptation of the term-we would not have our markets crowded with the porducts of foreign workmen without protective measures fol home industry; we would not have the cheap labor of Europe allowed flo compete with the honest workmen of this conti nent; but we would not stretch the pro- lection too far or shut out by high imposts or any imposts the raw material that would but conduce to the promotion of our in dustry or those articles of vertu and SC forth, which would not only not interfere with home labor, but promote it, or at al events lead to increase the material weaitI possessed by the country.
 But what need to argue on these points Common sense is already convinced. Party - prejudice will never yield jot. It is sufh cient that this great reform is the recon mendation of Democrat to have it de nounced as a measure of industrial de struction The nation will, however, sur vive the false prophecies; and the messag' submitted to the Fiftieth Congress vii stand for all time as the inauguration of system of government favorable to our selves and just to all peoples.